cultural racism

So on top of everything else, it now turns out I'm a racist (as is at least one black friend of mine) ...

Cultural Racism:

Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype, and label people of color as "other", different, less than, or render them invisible. Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh colored, having a future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and identifying only Whites as great writers or composers.

http://www.seattleschools.org/area/equityandrace/definitionofrace.xml

So "emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology" makes us culturally racist, hm?

This reminds me of the time in college an acquaintance said, "Don't you think that it's heterosexist for men and women to hold hands on campus?"

And I said, "No, I'm pretty sure the word you're looking for is heterosexual ..."

(Thanks once again to Seth Daniels.)